1956-D Lincoln Wheat Cent / Shadow? What The Coin Look Like

Moral to the story is simply not to publish information directly from books or other websites without direct written permission. This is what copyright laws are for.

Anyone who has gone through the thousands of hours and thousands of dollars in expense it takes to write a book or publish a website would appreciate and respect the law governing this area. Publishing this information is hard work.

Look.... not to get into a heated debate again but, Patrick I know my English & Journalism Laws. Here's a couple of references to educate you.

1. Here's a good Reference Law & Regulation site.
http://www.usq.edu.au/library/help/.../default.htm

a. quote another person word for word (direct quotation). It doesn't matter whether it is a phrase, sentence or paragraph, you will need to provide a reference from which it was taken.
b. paraphrase or summarise. Ideas or data obtained from another writer must be referenced even if you have changed the wording and/or content
c. use statistics. (eg population)
d. use tables, figures, diagrams and appendices. The source of these must be acknowledged unless they are entirely from your own research work.
e. use controversial facts, opinions, or a date which might be challenged. However, information of a general nature such as facts which are common knowledge eg the years of World War II do not need to be referenced.

2. Here's the UALR site.http://www.ualr.edu/copyright/articles/?ID=13

I understand what your trying to say, but I'm sorry.... your wrong. It's not really a black & white area, there are overlapping principles involved.

Amac..... I'm glad someone said something. I served five & took a few for my country which is where I'll stop. The only thing I can say though, is every soldier has their own story.

Bobby...... I'm just responding like everyone else.... as well as responding to a previous comment made toward my first reply. It does apply.

As to the original post..... just how rare is this Variety... since it's up for debate and so forth..... 47 years worth of searching is a long time.....

Ok enough of the reference wars.... not just a google, thing... just happened to be accessible... there are thousands of prints..... Anyway to the original post and the forum key points..... I'm here to further my coin & variety education as with everyone else.

Me to but some seam to hinder it!

Just adding one thing to the copyright issue. Coffegod, what you referenced is the use of small quotations or paraphrasing of previously published works which when done under certain guidelines is permissible. What you referenced has nothing to do with taking material directly from a book in a copied form for publication in another book or on the internet.

If for example, AMAC put a picture of his own coin up there and paraphrased the section from the Whitman book there would be no problems.

Copying directly, images or text from a published source without the permission of the publisher is illegal. Plain and simple. That's what the copyright protection is all about.

I am a choir director and we even have to get permissions from the publisher of our hymnal to make copies of music therein if we need more copies.

You are just not correct in this.

Also, The fact that the breaking of copyright laws is done all the time all over the place especially on the internet does not make it legal. It only makes it an illegal activity that is being gotten away with.

My point was not to argue whether or not it happens. My point is that it is illegal.

Thanks,
Bill